Feng Jianming


Feng Jianming is a Chinese literature professor.
He completed his post-doctoral program in Fudan University with a major in Comparative Literature and World Literature, finished his doctoral program in Shanghai International Studies University with a major in English Language and Literature, and got his master's degree of English Language and Literature in Hebei Normal University. Now, he is a professor of English, the director of the Centre for Irish Studies, and a supervisor of postgraduate students at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. His research areas focus on Irish literature, British and American literature, and the Bible as literature. His recent publications include academic books on James Joyce and critical essays on Irish literature. He keeps a diary entitled Ming Ze Zhu.

Academic books

2010: Characterization in Joyce's Novels. Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House, 2010.
2008: The Character in British Fiction: A Critical History. Shanghai: Shanghai [Foreign Language Education Press], 2008.
2007: The English-Chinese Dictionary. Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2007.
2005: The Transfigurations of the Characters in Joyce's Novels. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2005.
2005: Complete Works of Xiao Qian. Wuhan: Hubei People's Publishing House, 2005.

Critical essays published in Chinese core journals or the source journals of CSSCI

2011: “Good Beginnings and Narration.” Masterpieces Review Mid January.
2010: “You, Him, & Me in the Dream.” Literature of the Times Late September.
2010: “Brothers as Persecutors in Finnegans Wake.” Writer Magazine First Half of August.
2010: “The ‘4’ and the History.” Mountain Flowers B7.
2010: “‘Day’ and ‘Night’ in Joyce's Novels.” GuiZhuo Social Sciences 5:36—38.
2010: “Form and Content.” Literature of the Times Early April :79—81.
2010: “Transfiguration and Sublimation.” Masterpieces Review 3 :131—133.
2009: “From Prosaicness to Magicness: on the Artistic Conception of the Ending of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” English and American Literary Studies. Autumn :167—176.
2008: “Joyce’s Solicitude for Rationality.” Journal of Chongqing University 2 :113—116.
2007: “Artistic Conception of the Beginning of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce.” Journal of Ningxia University 4 :68—71.
2004: “On the Feminine ‘Yes’ in Ulysses.” Journal of Hebei Normal University 6 : 96–101.
2004: “Wonderful Poetical Features in Finnegans Wake.” Foreign Literature Studies 3 : 36–42.

Awards

2004: Baosteel Education Award awarded by Baosteel Education Fund Council.
2003: The TRIPLE-A STUDENT of Shanghai International Studies University issued by Shanghai International Studies University.